The summit programme runs 26-27 August 2020. Below is an overview to help you plan ahead. Further details about the programme and speakers will be published here soon. Session times may be subject to change.
Ahead of the summit we will also be running presenter briefings, orientation sessions for virtual participants and networking sessions.
| Times (BST) | Summit Day 1 (Wednesday) | |
| 09.00 | Welcome to the Summer Summit | |
| 10.00 | Summit networking | |
| 11.00 | Learning Technology in times of Crisis, Care and Complexity – the Strategic view Keynote Panel discussionChaired by Professor Helen O’Sullivan | |
| 12.00 | Parallel Session 1: Copyright and online learning in a time of crisis Jane Secker, Chris Morrison | Parallel Session 2: Focus on collaboration From shoe experts to active collaboration: Building active reading into a Foundation Degree programme at the University of Sussex – Wendy Garnham and Matt East The Role of Learning Technology in Supporting Education Through Crisis – John Traxler and Matt Smith Session sponsor: |
| 13.00 | Parallel Session 3: Focus on Open Education For the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER – Lorna Campbell Research methods in open education: insights from the Global OER Graduate Network – Robert Farrow and Martin Weller et al. | Parallel Session 4: Focus on Assessment Assessment and digital competences: building capacity with academic staff – Rob Lowney and Suzanne StoneCrowd sourcing Technology Enhanced Assessment – Suzanne StoneSession sponsor: UNIwise  |
| 14.00 | Break | |
| 15.00 |  Q&A with Angela SainiAward-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster, Angela Saini, will join the summit for a Q&A session chaired by ALT’s chief executive Maren Deepwell. | |
| 16.00 | Parallel Session 5: Focus on Virtual Labs details to follow | Parallel Session 6: Focus on Accessibility What we can learn from user experience design to make learning technology more inclusive – Dominik Lukes |
| 17.00 |  GO-GN ‘Crisis & Care’ GASTABuilding on the recent success of #GastaGoesGlobal, this special ‘Crisis & Care’ Gasta session features doctoral researchers from the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) and will be chaired in the best #altc GASTA tradition by Dr Tom Farrelly, Institute of Technology, Tralee (ITT). | |
| 18.00 | Social programme #altc | |
| Times (BST) | Summit Day 2 (Thursday) | |
| 09.00 | Welcome to the Summer Summit | |
| 10.00 | Summit networking | |
| 11.00 |  Keynote: Charlotte WebbChaired by ALT Annual Conference Co-Chair, Matt Lingard Dr Charlotte Webb is co-founder of Feminist Internet, a non-profit organisation aiming to make the internet more equal by combining art and design, feminism and technology. | |
| 12.00 | Parallel Session 7: Focus on learner well being and care Learner interventions supported by data: Ethics and efficacy – Tom Pieroni and Lucinda BromfieldUniversity students’ experiences: How their virtual learning environment impacts on their mental well being – Katie Rakow | Parallel Session 8: Focus on virtual campus/VLE Moving academic advising online: enabling student aspiration and reflection – David Biggins and Andrew Kitchenham et al. Pandemic pedagogy: social presence in the viral learning environment – Leo Havemann |
| 13.00 | Parallel Session 9: Focus on leadership and strategy Have I Got TEL For You… – Julie Voce After the Quake: Towards Fully Blended Universities – Dominic Pates | Parallel Session 10: Focus on students Defining a digital future for teaching, learning and assessment: What do our students want? – Richard Walker and Nathan Page Hybrid delivery of academic writing workshops: Responding to evolving student demographic and complexity in engagement patterns. – Louise Green and Katherine Koulle et al. Session Sponsor: |
| 14.00 | Break | |
| 15.00 | Keynote: Crisis and Care
Facilitated by OER20 Chair Mia Zamora, this session will explore the themes of digital pedagogy through crisis and care. | |
| 16.00 | Parallel Session 11: Focus on care and reflective practice Making sense of 2020; reflective pedagogies in digital spaces – Sarah CopelandInstitutional compassion: a co-design approach to developing digital wellbeing – Debbie Holley and David Biggins et al. | Parallel Session 12: Crisis and beyond Responding to complexity: exploring the concept of the “Digital Educator” during Covid-19 – Claire McAvinia, Pauline Rooney et al.Establishing a ‘Social Learning Space’ during lockdown, and beyond. – Tim Fransen |
| 17.00 | Policy and Future – Panel discussion | |
| 18.00 | Close of Summit & virtual goodbyes | |
Dr. Bonnie Stewart, Assistant Professor of Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning , University of Windsor and Dave Cormier, Office of Open Learning, University of Windsor will join forces for a special keynote conversation at the Summer Summit.